User blog comment:Bartholomew Billberry Bowstring/Sharpe's Highwaybeasts/@comment-32303-20121109151749/@comment-25220117-20121118173738

''Taking a white serviette from one of his many pockets, the chubby corporal began shining his kitchen items one by one as he sat in the grass, humming to himself as he worked. Sharpe nodded to Buckworthy as the last hares climbed out of the tunnel, a light breeze from the sea ruffling his gray, brown-flecked fur "Why don't you, Sham, an' young Stargell scout th' land around us a tad, eh Corporal? Find us immediately once y' learn somethin' blinkin' useful, wot" The two hares that were selected to accompany Buckworthy, the young leveret doe Stargell and Sham Dovetail, a rackishly dressed buck well known for his impudence and disrespect for officers, immediately began gearing up. Sham glared murderously at Sharpe, who smiled cheerfully back at him, waving his paw at him jokingly as if he were a child "Now be good, Private, we don't want to have to tell your mater about any o' your wrongdoings, do we? Go on, run and play" Sham's face went beet-red under his fur, but he decided to hold his tongue. Stargell loped up to Buckworthy, waggling an ear at him as she practically radiated good humor, leaning against her light javelin'' "Well naow, ole lad, off yore hunches, don't want to miss supper runnin' wily nilly all day, do we?"